National Homebrew Club Ireland

The "South Dublin Brewers" will be conducting their next tasting meet on Thursday 16th January in the Dark Horse, Blackrock. Details below...

Location
The Dark Horse, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Date
Thursday 16th January

Time
8pm

Protocol

• You don't have to have any beer to bring in order to participate! Inexperienced brewers are more than welcome. Even if you're only thinking about brewing your own, come along  - our friendly crowd will answer any questions you might have.
• If you have some brews for tasting, please bring along 500ml of each.
• To show some thanks to our hosts for allowing us to drink homebrewed beers in their pub, it is customary to buy some drinks from the house. The Dark Horse boasts an extensive range of craft beers and also has an excellent off-license.
• Please sign-up below if you'd like to attend - that way you will be notified of any cancellations or other changes.

Cost
Free

Organiser/Contact
Bubbles
Shanna

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale)

"Maroon"??  :D

Jesus.. what did you put in it??

Maroon colour is cause first time grinding roasted barley with the new mill and it pretty much ended up as dust. I used 100grs of 1350 EBC roasted barley. Beer smith said it was fine colour wise but as always I put it down to a mistake. I used a manual scales to measure out the barley and it was probably not calibrated properly. My digital scales keeps going on the blink.

Shanna 

Hmm, yeah you have to watch roasted barley, or you end up with a brown porter.

I've learned to take BeerSmith's colour predictions with a pinch of salt - especially the graphic up in the top right corner. It's next to useless.

I'm open to correction on this, but I think the roasted barley just comes out like that when it's ground. It's pretty brittle stuff, though I'm not sure how it compares to other specialty malts in terms of moisture content. So I don't think the crush is the problem there. Especially if your other grains were fine. 100g is a fair amount of RB to put in an Irish Red. I use 60g in mine (along with a fair portion of crystal) and it comes out as red as anything. The only thing is to chalk it down to experience and adjust the RB in your next attempt. It's great to dial in recipes like this. Most of the beers I've done in 2013 have been re-brews, and it's been a great learning experience - learning about the ingredients themselves and how they affect a beer.

In any case, I'm sure it will taste just fine. My first attempt at an Irish Red came out too dark also, so I just called it a "Ruby Porter", like Whitewater's Clotworthy Dobbin.

Checked the gravity of the irish ale today and its fine. I could also see that the colour while dark is at least still red. Know what you mean about re brews have two planned for stout and IPA

Shanna

Quote from: Shanna on December 31, 2013, 11:20:48 AM
1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale)
3. John_C (APA)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)

might drop out, if so will have an irish red

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)

Quote from: beerfly on January 03, 2014, 10:25:20 AM
might drop out, if so will have an irish red

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)

Should be able to make this...

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)
7. David (APA)

Hi all,

I'm new to homebrew and would like to join you guys next week.

I also have two mates who are interested in the idea of homebrew but haven't made the leap just yet. I'd like to bring them along if that's okay?

I'm afraid we won't have anything to contribute except our ignorance and lack of knowledge about homebrew. I've just started my first batch which came with the Coopers DIY Kit that I'm using... which I'll probably ruin as I try to pop my homebrew cherry!!


Ciarán

Quote from: BeerWolf on January 10, 2014, 03:45:13 PM
Hi all,

I'm new to homebrew and would like to join you guys next week.

I also have two mates who are interested in the idea of homebrew but haven't made the leap just yet. I'd like to bring them along if that's okay?

I'm afraid we won't have anything to contribute except our ignorance and lack of knowledge about homebrew. I've just started my first batch which came with the Coopers DIY Kit that I'm using... which I'll probably ruin as I try to pop my homebrew cherry!!

Ciarán

Ciaran we all start somewhere and you might surprise yourself with your kit.  If you got your sanitation right there is a good chance your first kit will turn out better than you expect.  Your more than welcome to bring your mates along all I would ask is that you put your and their names on the list so we know how many people will attend. Generally speaking each person bringing a beer would bring along a single bottle to sample.  However if the numbers of people attending goes over 10, people might want to consider bringing two bottles to allow everybody to sample the beer.  Don't worry about you not bringing any beer, if and when your coopers kit is ready you can bring it along.

I and others started on kits so prep your questions and hopefully we can help answer them.  We are always looking to encourage new Brewers especially those local to the area so your all very welcome.

Shanna

Ps: Don't feel just because you're a new Brewer that you have to be deferential to everybody as we all have to start somewhere. Personally I am brewing less than two years so in the grand scheme of things I am a complete beginner also.

Hi guys

As the numbers are trending up towards 10 might not be a bad idea to consider bringing two bottles of your beer along to cater for the larger numbers.

Shanna

Just bumping this...

I'm eager to get some opinions on a Belgian ale I did - can't think of which BJCP category to place it in for the competition.

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)
7. David (APA)

I finished my keg during the week so I won't have any beer to bring.

No bother John.

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)
7. David (APA)
8. Ciaran

Waiting on confirmation from the lads I extended the invite to. I will update as soon as I hear.